Lebanon cedar
Ambergris
Frankincense
Mysore sandalwood
Caligari
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Unjust!
... is the price compared to the other fragrances from the House of Matriarch. But equally unjust is the current average assessment of longevity and sillage.
I don’t know if any fragrance out there justifies such a price. This one certainly doesn’t (for me). One probably has to refer to the description on the manufacturer's homepage to justify this investment. It states in reverent and flowery promotional language:
Lebanese cedar distilled in Washington, a royal mix of incense from Arabia, Indian sandalwood from the 1950s, and New Zealand amber from the 1920s.
It’s really nice that Christi Meshell is collecting the leftovers worldwide and filling extracts into small glass containers before they are thrown away. But not everything that appears to be particularly rare must also yield particularly good results. Please don’t misunderstand me, and I will get to the positive aspects shortly, but this no longer correlates with the performance. Especially when you look at her other fragrances. Here, a true status symbol should be created, whose owner memorizes the aforementioned ingredients to impress others.
The scent is initially dry, woody, somewhat leathery, and the amber resonates quite darkly. It is the only adornment in this rough, rugged formation. A certain nuttiness emerges and counteracts an overemphasis on the incense. Once that is warded off - which I personally find entirely good, before it becomes far too dusty - an earthy creaminess sets in.
It is one of the few "reciprocal developers" that I have in my collection. And perhaps the previous reviewers did not have enough material or understandably handled it sparingly given the price. Today, I applied 0.5 ml. That amounts to a mere 3.70 euros in my case. If you just heard a slap, that was my bare hand hitting my bare forehead.
It has delivered good performance for 16 hours. But it only becomes really noticeable from about the third hour. It reaches its peak between the fifth and tenth hour, and by the sixteenth hour, it is still doing well. The scent development was directly proportional to this. It unfolds without falling apart. Over the course of a long opening, more and more facets emerged without it becoming weaker or showing any signs of demise. That is truly a solid performance and certainly not below average within the HoM program, and due to the increased performance with longer longevity, it is certainly remarkable.
I would like to thank the no less than 15 (!) fellow participants who bravely and unfortunately waited far too long for the arrival of the sharing flask. Without this community, 16 people could now be less inclined to ponder whether such prices are justified and where the limits of reason lie. Thank you all!
I have 12 ml left, and that is more than enough for such a "fun." Quite good for convincing completely unsuspecting visitors of my own craziness: "This tiny flask costs $838 in the States." Otherwise, I stand by my opinion. A few good fragrances can already be found from 50 to 70 €/100 ml. Between 100 and 300 €/100 ml, every quality is represented, and above 300 €/100 ml, it doesn’t really get better, and the risk of regretting not perhaps buying three instead of just one fragrance with that money increases.
I don’t know if any fragrance out there justifies such a price. This one certainly doesn’t (for me). One probably has to refer to the description on the manufacturer's homepage to justify this investment. It states in reverent and flowery promotional language:
Lebanese cedar distilled in Washington, a royal mix of incense from Arabia, Indian sandalwood from the 1950s, and New Zealand amber from the 1920s.
It’s really nice that Christi Meshell is collecting the leftovers worldwide and filling extracts into small glass containers before they are thrown away. But not everything that appears to be particularly rare must also yield particularly good results. Please don’t misunderstand me, and I will get to the positive aspects shortly, but this no longer correlates with the performance. Especially when you look at her other fragrances. Here, a true status symbol should be created, whose owner memorizes the aforementioned ingredients to impress others.
The scent is initially dry, woody, somewhat leathery, and the amber resonates quite darkly. It is the only adornment in this rough, rugged formation. A certain nuttiness emerges and counteracts an overemphasis on the incense. Once that is warded off - which I personally find entirely good, before it becomes far too dusty - an earthy creaminess sets in.
It is one of the few "reciprocal developers" that I have in my collection. And perhaps the previous reviewers did not have enough material or understandably handled it sparingly given the price. Today, I applied 0.5 ml. That amounts to a mere 3.70 euros in my case. If you just heard a slap, that was my bare hand hitting my bare forehead.
It has delivered good performance for 16 hours. But it only becomes really noticeable from about the third hour. It reaches its peak between the fifth and tenth hour, and by the sixteenth hour, it is still doing well. The scent development was directly proportional to this. It unfolds without falling apart. Over the course of a long opening, more and more facets emerged without it becoming weaker or showing any signs of demise. That is truly a solid performance and certainly not below average within the HoM program, and due to the increased performance with longer longevity, it is certainly remarkable.
I would like to thank the no less than 15 (!) fellow participants who bravely and unfortunately waited far too long for the arrival of the sharing flask. Without this community, 16 people could now be less inclined to ponder whether such prices are justified and where the limits of reason lie. Thank you all!
I have 12 ml left, and that is more than enough for such a "fun." Quite good for convincing completely unsuspecting visitors of my own craziness: "This tiny flask costs $838 in the States." Otherwise, I stand by my opinion. A few good fragrances can already be found from 50 to 70 €/100 ml. Between 100 and 300 €/100 ml, every quality is represented, and above 300 €/100 ml, it doesn’t really get better, and the risk of regretting not perhaps buying three instead of just one fragrance with that money increases.
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